The Kyiv police are conducting urgent investigative actions to identify the persons responsible for the death of a 20-year-old man on the amusement ride.
This was reported by the National Police of Ukraine.
Currently, investigators are conducting searches in the relevant services of the Kyiv City State Administration, which approved the location of the attraction, state control bodies that issued permits and were supposed to exercise proper control over its activities, and directly in the companies of the attraction owner.
As part of the criminal proceedings, law enforcement officers questioned the director of the attraction and staff.
They also seized official documents that will be examined as part of the appointed examination of the causes and consequences of violations of health and safety requirements.
As reported, investigators of the Pechersk Police Department opened criminal proceedings under two articles of the Criminal Code.
What happened before
- In January 2021, the Kyiv City State Administration announced that Active Country LLC had won an investment tender to attract an investor to implement the project ‘Arrangement of a cable car ride across the Dnipro River from the People's Friendship Arch to Trukhaniv Island’.
- The customer of the cable car project was the Pleso utility company. Its total cost is approximately UAH 3.6 million.
- Back in 2021, prosecutors tried to stop the operation of this attraction and sued. They stressed that the company had no experience in implementing such projects and operating such attractions, given their potential danger to life and health.
- The defendants in the case were the Executive Body, PLESO and the winning LLC.
- However, the Kyiv Commercial Court dismissed the claim in its decision of 2 December 2021. This decision was upheld by the decision of the Northern Commercial Court of Appeal of 16 June 2022 and the decision of the Supreme Court of 14 September 2022.
- The courts and the defendants, represented by Kyiv city officials, disagreed with the prosecutor's position that the cable car across the Dnipro River is a high-risk attraction. The court also found that the design and technical documentation for the attraction had not been developed at the time of the investment tender and the trial.
- ‘However, none of the KCSA officials who held the tender to determine the winner were concerned about this until today's tragic incident. We remind the KCSA officials who ‘demand a thorough investigation from law enforcement officers’ of their position in the courts,’ the prosecutor's office said in a press release.